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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN L. MOSS AND NORRIS LITTELL, OF ROME, GEORGIA.

PROCESS OF EXTRACTING OIL FROM FORMED OIL-CAKE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 313,440, dated March 3, 1885.

Application filed April 14, 1884.

To all whom it away concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN L. Moss and NORRIS LITTELL, citizens of the United States, residing at Rome, in the county of Floyd and State of Georgia, have invented a new and useful Process for Extracting Oil from Formed Oil-Cake, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to processes for extracting oil from formed oil-cake; and it consists in subjecting the formed oil-cake to cake will not adhere to the plates, but will (No specimens.)

! part readily from them. The oil-cake is first formed in a cake-former, and then, between polished metal plates, subjected to pressure in-an oil-press.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

The herein-described process of extracting oil from formed oil-cake, consisting in first forming the oil-cake in an oil-cake former, placing the formed oil-cakes in a press between highly-polished metal plates, and subjecting the oil-cakes to pressure between the plates, substantially as specified.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we have heretoaffixed our signatures in presence of two WllJIlGSSQS.

JOHN L. Moss. NORRIS LITTELL. 

